Quotes: "The main task of our armed forces has been and still is unchanged--the reliable protection of the peaceful labor of the Soviet people from infringements from abroad on the sovereignty and the integrity of our multinational state."

Quote: "The frameworks of the intelligence work are dictated by our approach to human rights and the moral principles of the Soviet state."

Shebarshin, April, 1990.

INTERIOR: Lt. Gen. Vasily P. Trushin, 56, acting interior minister, replacing Boris K. Pugo. Trushin has been a first deputy minister of the Interior Ministry since 1985. The interior minister is in charge of the nation's police.